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Daniel Lemire's mental models

2 claims Daniel Lemire made fit 1 mental model. Most often: Signalling. Everything they said here.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Signalling

Much of what people do is a message about themselves, and a signal is believed only when it costs something to send.

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Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.

  1. Daniel Lemire Computer science professor who works on fast data processing The purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs. AI is breaking the academic sorting machinelemire.me · 20 Sept 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThe purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.

    ↗AI is breaking the academic sorting machinelemire.me

    20 Sept 2026